Links
Links to organizations, donors and bi-laterals working in the land tenure and property rights sector. Links are provided for informational purposes only; external content is not approved or endorsed by the USAID Land Tenure Unit or any other US government entity.
Department for International Development (DFID)
The web site of the United Kingdom's Department for International Development contains information related to British aid activities, land tenure, property rights, and the Millennium Development goals.
FAO Gender and Land Rights Database
This database, managed by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), contains country-level information on social, economic, political and cultural issues related to the gender inequalities embedded in land rights. Disparity on land access is one of the major causes for social and gender inequalities in rural areas, and it jeopardizes, as a consequence, rural food security as well as the wellbeing of individuals and families. The database offers information in 6 categories: national legal frame, international treaties and conventions, customary law, land tenure and related institutions, civil society organizations, and selected land-related statistics.
FAO Land Tenure and Management Unit
A collection of information resources compiled by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO).
Foncier & développement
Portal dedicated to land issues in developing countries with documents in both French and English financed by the Coopération Française.
ILC's Land Portal
The Land Portal will in the first instance serve to aggregate existing information sources from around the web as well as facilitate the posting of information that is currently not online. The coordinators of the Portal will thereby act as editors to display information in a way that makes it more digestible, through tagging and aggregating it according to country or topic, and summarizing and synthesizing. The portal will be designed together with the organizations producing the information and the user community of the portal. It will be an open space for information sharing, in which, according to agreed-upon criteria by the partners, anyone can access, add or update information. As such the portal hopes to generate dicussion around land information with the aim of improving it.
French Agricultural Research Centre for International Development (CIRAD)
An agricultural research organization based in France committed to ensuring that the farming systems of the future benefit the world's poorest populations.
The Institute for Poverty, Land, and Agrarian Studies (PLAAS)
A center for teaching, research and national policy making with a focus on Southern Africa
The International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD)
A United Nations organization dedicated to ending rural poverty through country-specific solutions, which can involve increasing rural poor peoples' access to financial services, markets, technology, land and other natural resources.
International Land Coalition
The International Land Coalition is an alliance of civil society and intergovernmental organisations working together to promote secure and equitable access to, and control over, land and natural resources for women and men as a key strategy to overcome poverty and food insecurity. The way that rights to land and natural resources are allocated and managed plays a central role in enabling or hindering economic development, food security, social justice and environmental sustainability.
Landnet West Africa
The West African Land Network is a bilingual (French and English) resource from a non profit organisation working to bring an African perspective in the land policy debate at international level. LandNet West Africa is represented by 4 national member organisations (in Burkina Faso, Benin, Togo and Guinea) and by individual members in more than 10 West African countries including Cote d’Ivoire, Ghana, Mali, Niger, Nigeria, Senegal, and Liberia.
The Lincoln Institute of Land Policy
The Lincoln Institute addresses issues involving the use, regulation, and taxation of land.
Market Financing for Biodiversity Conservation and Strategic Tradeoffs for Wildlife-friendly Eco-labels
Consumers buying products labeled “eco-friendly” may hope to help conserve the environment, yet the credibility of eco-labels varies. Wildlife conservation poses special challenges for eco-label claims because wild animal populations fluctuate naturally and field verification of impacts can be slow, complex, and costly. This brief defines three types of eco-labels according to their potential to conserve wildlife, and examines the obstacles to convincing consumers of eco-label claims.
Oxfam: Land Rights in Africa
A compilation of research from Oxfam UK and other development organizations in order to present and disseminate arguments in favor of pro-poor land reform.
Rights and Resources Initiative
The Rights and Resources Initiative is a strategic coalition of international, regional and community organizations engaged in development, research and conservation. Together, they are working to encourage greater global commitment and action on pro-poor tenure, policy and market reforms.
Landesa/Rural Development Institute (RDI)
Landesa works to secure land rights for the world’s poorest people—those 3.4 billion chiefly rural people who live on less than two dollars a day. Landesa partners with developing countries to design and implement laws, policies, and programs concerning land that are foundational for reducing poverty, promoting economic growth, promoting women’s empowerment, reducing and preventing violent conflict, and fostering environmental stewardship. Landesa performs research; assists with designing legislative, policy, and programmatic solutions; advocacy; and implementation support and assessments. Landesa has worked to help secure land rights in more than 40 countries. Our current target geographies include India, China, and Sub-Saharan Africa.
Systemwide Program on Collective Action and Property Rights (CAPRi)
The Systemwide Program on Collective Action and Property Rights (CAPRi) is one of several inter-center initiatives of the Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research (CGIAR) created to foster research and promote collaboration on institutional aspects of natural resource management between CGIAR research centers, national agricultural research institutions, and other sources. The CAPRi program examines the formation and effectiveness of voluntary, community-level organizations and property institutions as they relate to natural resource management.
UN-Habitat Global Land Tenure Network
The Global Land Tool Network (GLTN)’s main objective is to contribute to poverty alleviation and the Millennium Development Goals through land reform, improved land management and security of tenure.
Focus on Africa: Land Tenure & Property Rights
This website is aimed at development practitioners, donors and policy makers in both developing and industrialized countries. It features a series of modules highlighting the land tenure experiences and lessons from six Sub-Saharan African countries: Ghana, Kenya, Mali, Mozambique, Tanzania and Uganda.
